Tag: Simon Rattle
Peter Sellars stages Charpentier’s “Médée” at the Berlin State Opera – Culture
The Berlin State Opera shows Charpentier’s “Médée”, conducted by Simon Rattle and directed by Peter Sellars. The stage design is by world-famous architect Frank Gehry, but the biggest event is…
Konzerthaus & Simon Rattle: Hope for a home for number 1 – Bavaria
Björn Wilhelm, the cultural program director of Bavarian Radio, is betting that the concert hall will be built in Munich’s Werksviertel and that Bavaria’s government coalition will act accordingly to…
The future of the Munich Concert Hall – Munich
The CSU and Free Voters are currently negotiating the coalition agreement. What it says could also have consequences for the construction of the Munich Concert Hall. Which other contracts play…
Sir Simon Rattle and the BR Symphony Orchestra in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
The huge orchestral line-up really filled the podium of the Isarphilharmonie to the last centimeter. Gustav Mahler’s sixth symphony, called “the tragic one” because of its march-like relentlessness in the…
Simon Rattle in Munich: Love at first sight – culture
There is only one conductor who would definitely put Joseph Haydn’s “The Creation” on the program at the beginning of a new engagement, this harmoniously refracted jubilation through the biblical…
Sir Simon Rattle makes his debut as head of the Munich Symphony Orchestra
The waiting time is over – this Thursday at 8 p.m. star conductor Sir Simon Rattle will make his debut as head of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir…
Opera Festival in Aix-en-Provence: Man can not only torture – culture
A woman stands alone on the stage. Unsentimentally simple, she sings that her child died just as it began to speak the first sentences. It is the absolute horror of…
Five for Munich: symphony with brass music – Munich
making music For his entry in Munich has Sir Simon Rattle something special: a “Symphonic Hoagascht” with brass bands. The future chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is…
Simon Rattle conducts Mozart’s “Idomeneo” in Berlin – culture
From Wolfgang Schreiber Sir Simon Rattle’s career as a concert conductor is striking. He worked in Birmingham for a long time, then as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, music…
Review: Wagner’s “Siegfried” in the Isarphilharmonie – Munich
Sir Simon Rattle, the future head of the BR Symphony Orchestra, conducts Wagner’s “Siegfried” in the Isar Philharmonic Hall – and feels strange. When Michael Volle comes to the final…